Mental Illnesses Reported By 17% Of New Orleans Residents After Hurricane Katrina, Study Finds

In the first month after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and surrounding areas in August 2005, 17% of the city’s residents reported serious mental illness, compared with 10% of people living in areas near the city and an estimated prevalence of 1% to 3% in the general population, according to a study published Tuesday in the Archives of General Psychiatry, the [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Mental Health on December 15th, 2007